Topics and Expertise: PharmD education

From community college to PharmD residency via UCSF

Mon Jun 10, 2024
Kastoun

Warif Kastoun, PharmD

Nearly a third of the University of California’s Class of 2024 started their higher education journey at California community colleges, including Warif Kastoun, PharmD, whose plans to run her own local pharmacy in Damascus, Syria, were interrupted by civil war.

PharmD students assess furnishing of HIV medication at local pharmacies

Wed Aug 25, 2021
PharmD students assess pharmacist furnishing of HIV medications under California's SB-159

Kotis joins leadership of UCSF Health as chief pharmacy executive

Mon Sep 14, 2020
Kotis

Desi Kotis, PharmD, is UCSF Health's chief pharmacy executive and an associate dean and faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy.

Desi Kotis, PharmD, is committed to bringing the highest level of pharmacy care to patients at UCSF Health.

School of Pharmacy welcomes the Class of 2022

Fri Aug 2, 2019
Guglielmo speaks to an auditorium behind a screen that reads 'Welcome Class of 2022!'
Levi Gadye

B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, dean of the UCSF School of Pharmacy, addresses the latest PharmD class.

The Class of 2022 is the School of Pharmacy’s second cohort to embark on a newly revamped curriculum.

School reflects on legacy of achievement at Alumni Weekend 2019

Wed May 1, 2019
Koda-Kimble and Guglielmo
Elena Graham

Former School of Pharmacy dean Mary Anne Koda-Kimble, PharmD ’69, left, chats with current dean B. Joseph Guglielmo, PharmD, after the morning session on the new doctor of pharmacy curriculum at UCSF Alumni Weekend 2019.

Students, faculty, staff, and alumni celebrated the School of Pharmacy's long history of achievement in the discovery and clinical sciences, and clinical practice, at Alumni Weekend 2019.

Update from the Dean – March 2018

Thu Mar 1, 2018
Guglielmo.
A new PharmD curriculum; Implementing new practice opportunities for pharmacists; PharmD students shine in state and national clinical pharmacy competitions; A pioneer in pharmacogenomics; The NIH streak lives on; Improving adverse event reporting and medication therapy protocols; Big-data to cut...

Update on PharmD curriculum transformation

Thu Feb 15, 2018
Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans shares her perspective on the School’s new PharmD curriculum.

Advanced practice pharmacists are ready

Thu Nov 9, 2017
Kroon
Elisabeth Fall

Lisa Kroon, PharmD, professor and chair of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy, UCSF School of Pharmacy

Pharmacists are going to be more integral to health care teams in the future.

Student speaker Ana Cruz shares her path to pharmacy and activism

Thu Oct 19, 2017
Cruz
Elisabeth Fall

Ana Cruz, Class of 2018

Ana Cruz knew, when she was very young, exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up, she told the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021 at their White Coat ceremony.

She wanted the same job as the woman in white.

Class of ’21 joins ranks of pharmacy at White Coat Ceremony

Wed Oct 18, 2017
student Leung with vice dean Youmans
Elisabeth Fall

First-year student Carmen Leung receives her white coat from Vice Dean Sharon L. Youmans, PharmD, MPH.

For the UCSF doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) Class of 2021, October 13 was the day they officially entered the profession. In a ceremony on the Parnassus campus, each student donned a white coat, a symbol of health care professionals for more than 100 years.

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